Manatees are large, fully aquatic, mostly plant-like eating mammals. There are only three regions where the Manatees actually live they are named:
Amazonian manatee
West Indian manatee
West African manatee
manatees habitats
Manatees can weight as much as 800 - 1000+ lbs. The average length of the mammal is 9 feet tall which is normal for males but females usually weigh more. The birth weight of these mammals are 60 lbs.The key to the manatees is their lips. The lips are flexible and and large. This stores food but it can help with communication between and throughout their own species. Adults communicate to maintain contact and during sexual and play behaviors. Taste and smell, in addition to sight, sound, and touch, may also be forms of communication.Manatees have huge teeth at its jaw. 6 on each side. The manatees have simple stomach so it just can consume regular herbs in its stomach anything else could mess up their tract in the stomach. A manatee will eat 10% of its body fat per day. Half a manatee's day is spent sleeping in the water, surfacing for air regularly at intervals no greater than 20 minutes. Manatees spend most of the rest of the time grazing in shallow waters at depths of 3.3–6.6 ft. The Florida researchers has been known to live up to 60 years. Even though they do not swim a lot, they are known to swim 20 mph in small spurts. Manatees breed every two years. The process for the period is 24-28 months for the baby to become nurtured. Manatees are located in the marsh areas of the world and rivers in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.
Studies say Florida manatees must have some access to fresh water. Accurate population estimates of the Florida manatee with widely varying counts from year to year, some areas show increases and others decreases, with very little strong evidence of increases except in two areas. Manatee counts are highly variable without an accurate way to estimate numbers:in Florida in 1996, a winter survey found 2,639 manatees; in 1997, a January survey found 2,229; and a February survey found 1,706.A statewide synoptic survey in January 2010 found 5,067 manatees living in Florida, which is a new record count. In 1997, scientist predicted that the species would be extinct by the 2010 year.
Because the mass of the manatee, predators are very slim and the only threats that are created are the things that have been destroyed. The habitats that are being destroyed daily by humans are killing the manatees.Second is also created by humans which is waste. Waste looks like food to the manatees and when in the their stomach and their digestive system does not register and gets the waste stuck. Algae is the second biggest predator which causes to be toxic to the nervous system and begins to make the manatee shut down.
Manatees
Manatees are large, fully aquatic, mostly plant-like eating mammals. There are only three regions where the Manatees actually live they are named:
Manatees can weight as much as 800 - 1000+ lbs. The average length of the mammal is 9 feet tall which is normal for males but females usually weigh more. The birth weight of these mammals are 60 lbs.The key to the manatees is their lips. The lips are flexible and and large. This stores food but it can help with communication between and throughout their own species.
Adults communicate to maintain contact and during sexual and play behaviors. Taste and smell, in addition to sight, sound, and touch, may also be forms of communication.Manatees have huge teeth at its jaw. 6 on each side. The manatees have simple stomach so it just can consume regular herbs in its stomach anything else could mess up their tract in the stomach. A manatee will eat 10% of its body fat per day.
Half a manatee's day is spent sleeping in the water, surfacing for air regularly at intervals no greater than 20 minutes. Manatees spend most of the rest of the time grazing in shallow waters at depths of 3.3–6.6 ft. The Florida researchers has been known to live up to 60 years. Even though they do not swim a lot, they are known to swim 20 mph in small spurts. Manatees breed every two years. The process for the period is 24-28 months for the baby to become nurtured. Manatees are located in the marsh areas of the world and rivers in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.
Studies say Florida manatees must have some access to fresh water. Accurate population estimates of the Florida manatee with widely varying counts from year to year, some areas show increases and others decreases, with very little strong evidence of increases except in two areas. Manatee counts are highly variable without an accurate way to estimate numbers:in Florida in 1996, a winter survey found 2,639 manatees; in 1997, a January survey found 2,229; and a February survey found 1,706.A statewide synoptic survey in January 2010 found 5,067 manatees living in Florida, which is a new record count. In 1997, scientist predicted that the species would be extinct by the 2010 year.
Because the mass of the manatee, predators are very slim and the only threats that are created are the things that have been destroyed. The habitats that are being destroyed daily by humans are killing the manatees.Second is also created by humans which is waste. Waste looks like food to the manatees and when in the their stomach and their digestive system does not register and gets the waste stuck. Algae is the second biggest predator which causes to be toxic to the nervous system and begins to make the manatee shut down.
Denzel Thomas
Work Cited
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/manatee/
http://cdn.cutestpaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/l-There-arent-nearly-enough-manatees.jpg
http://www.savethemanatee.org/manfcts.htm
http://on.natgeo.com/SLEJDs
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